It seems like not long ago, I was announcing my new project SAISONS on this very blog. A couple of weeks ago, my partner Janice and I organized our fifth edition and celebrated our first anniversary. Time flies when you’re having fun, and fun we’ve had! SAISONS has been met with such enthusiasm by everyone who has been part of it …

It seems like summer still has its foot set right in on this Canadian Thanksgiving weekend in Montreal! Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining! The leaves have just started donning their shimmering fall wardrobe and are dancing against the crystalline, cloudless sky. The crisp autumn light is just gorgeous but the air is as warm as …

Cuba holds a special place in my heart ever since I visited for the first time in 1996. I fell in love with the country as a whole that first time and with Havana in particular. The faded beauty of its colonial architecture, the magnificent beaches and the people’s open-heartedness charmed me and I’ve since …

Dine Out. Do Good. That’s the slogan for the Restaurants for Change fundraising event happening across Canada on October 19th, 2016. And what a great slogan it is! More than 65 participating restaurants in over 15 cities across the nation will donate proceeds from their October 19th dinner service to Community Food Centres Canada. The number of CFCC in Canada …

I have a backlog of restaurants I want to try that’s a mile long. New establishments are opening in Montreal much faster than I can test them and the list keeps getting longer. On the top of that list, however, are establishments that intrigue me immensely and Le coq de l’est, a Montreal rotisserie chicken restaurant …